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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

a recipe to share

Hi, I saw this recipe laid out on the Family Making blog and decided I had to share it with you.

Honestly, I have not made it yet... but I will. You better believe I will. I have been known to enjoy recipes that include abstract ingredients such as: Apple Dumplings that involves 8oz of Mt Dew, Pot Roast that involves 12oz of Coke, Spicy Shredded Pork that involves Dr Pepper... Okay, is it just me or do I only like to cook with soda pop?

Anyway. This chicken involves marshmallows and therefore I obligated to try it.

Adoption is the Gospel

"[Adoption is] the whole story of redemption. The universe was meant to be a home- where the image bearers of God rule and serve under their Father. It was all to be ours. The primeval insurrection in the garden, though, turned the universe into an orphanage- the heirs were gone, done in by their appetites. A serpent now holds the cosmos in captivity, driving along the deposed rulers as his slaves. The whole universe is now an orphanage.

But then there's Jesus.

When we were still orphans, Christ became a substitute orphan for us. Though he was a son, he took on the humiliation of a slave and the horror of death (Phil. 2:6-8). Jesus walked to that far country with us, even to the depths of the hog pen that we'd made our home, and hung on a tree abandoned by his Father in our place."